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Artist

Michelle Kasprzak

Michelle Kasprzak was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and currently lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She completed her BFA in NewMedia at Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario in 2000, and in 2006completed her MA in Visual and Media Arts at the Université du Québecà Montréal, earning several scholarships over the course of her academic career.

Michelle has exhibited and lectured across North America and Europe.She has appeared in publications such as Wired UK and on radio andtelevision broadcasts on the BBC and CBC. Most recently she hasdelivered talks at PICNIC (Amsterdam), transmediale festival (Berlin),and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh).

Following a decade of practice as a visual artist, her current focusis primarily on writing and curating. In 2006, she was awarded acuratorial research residency at the Nordic Institute for ContemporaryArt in Helsinki, Finland, and in 2010 she attended the Summer Seminarsfor Art Curators in Yerevan, Armenia. In 2006, Michelle founded aleading blog on the subject of curating contemporary art,Curating.info, which was featured in Cultural Bloggers Interviewed, aLabforCulture publication. She has written critical essays formagazines such as Spacing, CV Photo, Public, Mute, as well as severalonline journals. Her writing has appeared in anthologies andexhibition catalogues in both Canada and Europe.

The results of her curatorial work have appeared in venues worldwide,most recently across Toronto as part of a collaboration betweenWireless Toronto and Year Zero One, at Canada House (London, UK),Holden Gallery (Manchester, UK) Urban Screens Manchester (Manchester,UK), Federation Square (Melbourne, Australia), and the Virtual Museumsof Canada/Gallery TPW (Toronto, Canada). She is a member of IKT, theInternational Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, and amember of the Year Zero One artist collective.

Michelle is currently Project Director at McLuhan in Europe 2011, acultural network project that will celebrate Marshall McLuhan’s impacton European art and culture through a series of manifestations tooccur across Europe in 2011, the 100th anniversary of his birth.